US Patent Issued to DUKE UNIVERSITY on March 24 for "Tensorial tomographic fourier ptychography" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,752, issued on March 24, was assigned to DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, N.C.).

"Tensorial tomographic fourier ptychography" was invented by Roarke Horstmeyer (Durham, N.C.), Shiqi Xu (Durham, N.C.), Xiang Dai (Durham, N.C.), Lucas Kreiss (Durham, N.C.), Jadee Neff (Durham, N.C.) and Carolyn Glass (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Fourier ptychography system includes a polarization-sensitive camera positioned for capturing a sequence of polarized images of a sample, an objective lens positioned in a light path between the polarization-sensitive camera and the sample, an array of light sources for directing light to the sample ...